The proposed book by Georgy Vetrov tells about the activities of Sergei Korolev in the period 1929-1945. Materials covering the role of Korolev in the development of the first domestic jet vehicles are presented, issues of continuity in the works of Tsiolkovsky, Zander and Korolev are interpreted in a new way. A number of new documents allow you to more fully answer some controversial questions of the history of astronautics.